• Ovid, Metamorphoses VI :⁠— “One at the loom so excellently skilled That to the Goddess she refused to yield.” ↩
• Their love of gold still haunting them in the other world. ↩
• The arms of the Gianfigliacci of Florence. ↩
• The arms of the Ubbriachi of Florence. ↩
• The Scrovigni of Padua. ↩
• Vitaliano del Dente of Padua. ↩
• Giovanni Bujamonte, who seems to have had the ill-repute of being the greatest usurer of his day, called here in irony the “sovereign cavalier.” ↩
• As the ass-driver did in the streets of Florence, when Dante beat him for singing his verses amiss. See Sacchetti, Nov. CXV ↩
• Dante makes as short work with these usurers, as if he had been a curious traveller walking through the Ghetto of Rome, or the Judengasse of Frankfort. ↩